Our mutual economic relationship makes us complicit in the systematic abuses taking place, our government deliberately turning a blind eye because the authoritarian Gulf regime is the UK's biggest arms export market - and the arms trade is good business for a corporate elite who yield huge profits from death and destruction on a massive scale.

With such a huge amount of evidence pointing to Saudi Arabia as being the biggest sponsor of global terrorism, why is it that successive UK governments continue to support a rogue state while warning of decades long counter-terror operations? A state which is engineering international instability and an increasingly more dangerous world?

At a time when our civil liberties are gradually being eroded in the name of national security, and in the name of protecting the public from terrorist attacks, there is a much needed debate about how we choose our allies, and about creating a coherent strategy in alleviating our world from the 'Global War on Terror.' How can we claim to be a country that supports equality, diversity and freedom of speech when we continue with this inherently hypocritical trade relationship; a trade relationship which is facilitating such huge loss of life in Yemen and other Middle Eastern states?

The final point we need to put across is simple: torture, injustice, indiscriminate bombings, executions - how can we possibly ally ourselves so closely with a repressive authoritarian regime that has so little respect for human life and diversity - both domestically and internationally? As UK citizens it's important we stand in solidarity with CAAT's legal action, lending our signatures to their online petition, and lobbying our MPs to take a stand in the commons. It is clear, now more than ever, that the UK has to review this destructive trade relationship. It's time for the UK to #StopArmingSaudi.